Combustion Joining for Composite Fabrication

Abstract

Combustion Joining of refractory materials has great potential for low cost, rapid fabrication of composites, esp. for some materials that are difficult or impossible to join using more conventional techniques: Rapid combustion reactions provide a unique set of conditions for synthesizing functionally graded layers: short reaction times (~1 10 s) allow the desired functionally graded material structure to be maintained Demonstrated the concept for joining of SiC-Al-alloy using a combustionbased approach Need to determine optimum reaction layer composition and heat-treatment conditions to form various phases: - Ti3SiC2 (ductile), Si(Al)CO, TiC-SiC-Al New press set-up /die design implemented to produce optimized materials for sub-scale ballistic tests.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2009
Accession Number
ADA548563

Entities

People

  • Alex Mukasyan
  • Paul Mcginn
  • Ya-cheng Lin

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alloys
  • Carbon Carbon Composites
  • Carbon Fibers
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Composite Material Fabrication
  • Composite Materials
  • Fabrication
  • Graphitic Materials
  • Heat Treatment
  • High Temperature
  • Layers
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Reaction Time
  • Refractory Materials
  • Temperature Gradients

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Metallurgy
  • Software Engineering